In Reply to: Re: sb3 power upgrade posted by tz7 on February 9, 2007 at 20:37:20:
It's hard to judge the quality of the digital signal from the resultant sound alone. There is a 'correct' sound - that is, the sound from DAC with a perfect PCM stream - and this may or may not be what you like best. There are types of jitter that cause some DACs to respond with elevated mid-bass as the error correction kicks in (my CD player seems to do this when used as a transport). The sound is distinctly warm, but the resolution is shot.From what I understand, the SB3 uses a linear power supply internally to power the digital side of things, so a linear external PSU probably won't have a huge effect if you're using the digital output exclusively. However, decent linear PSUs are available surplus very inexpensively so there's not much risk in giving one a try.
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